Columbian Tweet-UP (clark county, washington.)

Are you a local blogger, social maven or a part of the unknown twitterati? Would you like to get together with like minded individuals without agenda and have a few laughs?

Well, March 1, 2012 at Schmizza Pizza in Salmon Creek. Take 134th street exit off I-205 or I-5, head west for a short distance and its in the one of the associated business clusters around the south southeast side of the Salmon Creek Fred Meyer. 

Please let us know your coming, so we can get a head count or you can sign up here:  (more contact information here.)

http://columbian-esearch.eventbrite.com/?srnk=1

Squatting in old folks homes... Portland News item....

There is a story going around in the Portland news media about a group of occupiers that are going into older folks or the "not so mentally able" homes and squatting. Now if it is true that these people had information on how to pick locks or used some type of trickery or deception to get into these people's home, is that not concerned forced entry or burglary?

Honestly, if these places had been seriously abandoned and were foreclosures, I might have a different view. 

But to into someone's home and do this, is just way beyond what I consider, beyond reproach or decent. A few people have been arrested and now, I think they should be held to a higher standard that your average drug bust idiot from Downtown Portland Crack-alley victim. 

Here is an example from the Portland Tribune. 

Back from the Holiday finery & winter season.

Yep! I'm back and the political season is upon us. Would love to see more clark county blogs in shape and form. I do hope to have more content coming soon. 

Snow-MAH-Geddon...

Be safe out there today and tonight people. We are expecting a lot of ice and some areas snow. Though I'm not seeing a lot here in the City of Vancouver, there is a lot of rain falling. And all it would take would be a simple freeze tonight to turn it into black ice. A really BAD case. 

If you have go to Portland or any area of the metro (which Vancouver is in) watch out for the icy hills as well!

Happy New Years...

Remember, pre-arrange a Tow for you and your car OR cab ride. There is no excuse for drinking and driving! If you have to folks, take the keys away from some one and make sure you get them home safe.

Happy Holidays....

I just wanted to wish everyone who may be reading this a happy holidays and a new year!

When you become frustrated with your local daily? (thought about the site being down?)

As some might know from my procurement of hell and outright disdain at time times for sites that simply can't figure out that how the web works, that there site goes down so many times like a cheap html junkie.

The excuse I have heard over the web was there was a contract internet backend vendor that was down. I was beginning to wonder if the local snoozemedia (sorry, the local name I have applied because for some reason or another, they simply always seem to be asleep at the switch!) simply could not find a good information technology person who knew how to right decent contracts to make sure their site was hosted at a decent provider and was up?

Have any of their web editors, IT or whomever is in charge of their CMS (for those who may not know, it is called content management systems with a template on the front that controls how a website looks, acts and does things.) contract does not seem to understand what SLA or service level agreement is?

This means, if the site goes down, does it have some serious penalty clauses or ways to switch to a computer system outside of the core development pod that the site is hosted on.  IN todays world, there is no excuse for a site being down, when web systems and cloud systems are so cheap!

Even when Amazon's EC2 and other cloud providers went down about six months ago that hosted every thing from your daily backup provider, ISP web hosters, Netflix and possibly web ad companies? This type of web disconnection for no decent or apparent reason should not tolerated by the owners of our local paper. Just as Amazon was villified for it's system being down.

And Amazon is a Seattle Based corporation with hands-across the world reach, so this tells you what a lot of people think about web providers in almost 2012. Why would they be down?